Blog Assignment: Road Map to Learning
I have listed questions below to help you reflect upon your reading and writing experiences in this class. Answer all or 3 or more questions to help you get started in reflecting upon your journey to learning. Take the following 20 minutes to develop a thorough response and then be prepared to share your findings in our final class discussion.
1) Did you achieve your writing goals?
2) What are the three most important reading/writing skills and tools did you develop in this course?
3) What are the three things you desire/wish you could do as a writer? (skills for development).
4) What have you discovered about yourself as a writer?
5) What have you discovered about your writing? Give specific examples.
6) What has helped you most with your writing this trimester?
7) Our topics of discussion have been focused on freedom. How have these discussion helped you as a reader and writer?
First of all, I have enjoyed this English class so much because it has really pushed me to formulate my thoughts better and to be able to convey what I wish to express more effectively.
In response to question 1- I think I was able to reach more of my goals than I originally thought that I would. I feel like I have a better understanding of how to properly formulate a paper into more complete thoughts and to be able to dig deeper into what another author means a more in depth "reading between the lines" if you will.
In response to question 4- What I have discovered about myself is that I love to write. I also have found out that I don't really see things from an analytical viewpoint like I once thought. I tend to write more from what's really on my mind and focus more on feelings, and come at things from a different lens sometimes. I feel like this is good at times, and not helpful at others.
In response to question 6- I believe that something that really helped my thoughts and writing really develop and flow together were the blog assignments. Those had to be my favorite. I loved being able to just take a subject that I don't normally think about and find that I have strong opinions or convictions about it. Being able to put what I was thinking down into words really made me feel accomplished. I also enjoyed our open class discussions and how I always felt that I could be myself and be heard, while listening to others and learning from them as well.
